Artista: Viagra Boys
Álbum: Cave World
Ano: 2022
Faixas/Tempo: 12/40min
Estilo: Indie/Post-Punk Revival
Data de Execução: 02/10/2023
Nota: 6,8
Melhor Música: Punk Rock Loser
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Motivational Music in the Morning ... #ViagraBoys featuring #JasonWilliamson, #BigBoy ... from the album #CaveWorld [Official Music Video] (2022) #MMitM1
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Viagra Boys Live Show Review: 2/24, The Salt Shed, Chicago
BY JORDAN MAINZER
Growing up in California, people told Sebastian Murphy he was too much of a freak. When he moved to Sweden, there they told him he was too normal. That’s how the Viagra Boys frontman introduced “Punk Rock Loser”, a self-aware standout from the band’s third album Cave World (YEAR0001), Friday night at The Salt Shed. The song showcases a drug-addicted, reckless, overconfident man, one that Murphy admits he perhaps used to be, not even five years ago. It’s this mixture of self-hatred and idealization where Murphy, and Viagra Boys as a whole, lies, a presence truly reflected in their live show.
The very makeup of Viagra Boys is a microcosm for the contrasts they demonstrate. As a frontman, Murphy exaggeratedly emulates the toxic males Viagra Boys chide. Swilling beer, sunglasses on, his words barked, Murphy shouted and slurred his way through “Big Boy”, the very sight of a heavily tattooed, beer bellied man gravel-throating the words, “Well I’m a big boy, baby,” seemingly designed to send shudders down the spine of a normie. On the flipside, there’s saxophonist Oscar Carls, the only member of the band to match Murphy’s level of sheer performance. Also donning Matrix-era sunglasses, equally drunk (on wine he kept filling up), the short-shorted, slender player vogued his way through “Ain’t Nice” and “Big Boy” when he wasn’t impressively skronking on his instrument. On the instrumental ‘Cold Play”, his swirling solo dabbled in free jazz improvisation, the type of artistic headiness that’s on the opposite end of the spectrum of Murphy’s hilarious blathering.
The funniest thing about Viagra Boys, though, is how good of a live band they are. From Elias Jungqvist’s scratchy keyboard breakdown on “Big Boy” to Tor Sjödén‘s crashing drums on “Sports”, they’re simultaneously tight and adventurous. They’re also surprising. Sjödén sang in beautiful falsetto harmony with Murphy’s slow drawl on “The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis”. Jungqvist added a wavering synth line to “Sports”. Murphy picked up a guitar on freakout jam “Shrimp Shack”. The band established a stage presence and immediately supplanted it.
Viagra Boys are satirists, their very name referencing a sense of false virility that pervades the hyper-aggressive men and conspiracy theorists they make fun of. In a sense, it’s a genius formula: As long as there are idiots, there will be Viagra Boys songs, like “Creepy Crawlers”, which saw Murphy writhing on the floor, imitating the desperation of a particularly brainwashed anti-vaxxer: “They're putting little creepy crawlers in the vaccine!” Yet, part of Murphy’s imitation is putting himself in the shoes of his subject, as he’s fascinated by them without thinking of himself as above them. On stage, he contrasted an early song like “Liquids” with Cave World’s anti-gun diatribe “Troglodyte”, stating he, “Now writes about political turmoil and the state of the world.” But the next song the band played in the set was “Sports”, their breakout single, the very song that makes fun of men who unnecessarily wear sunglasses. You know, like the Viagra Boys themselves.
And then there’s “Worms”. It’s a stylistic outlier in Viagra Boys’ catalog, a little bit country, featuring a subdued bassline, Murphy adopting a twang. “The same worms that eat me will someday eat you, too,” is like a John Prine punchline turned into a whole song, but one that’s an appropriate reminder that whether you’re right or wrong, an asshole or a nice person, death is the great equalizer.
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I see you talking but I cannot hear a thing
I'm staring out the window thinking bout the future
I hope that they replace my brain with a computer
I wonder if we're living in a simulation
Stop making noise because you'll go and break my concentration
(One song evidently based on experience, to absolutely noone's surprise.)
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Jahresrückblick 2022
Finally: 10 mal Dancefloor. 30 Alben. 10 mal Radio. 1 mal alles andere (15.01.2023)
BEST TRACKS (DANCEFLOOR)
1. hudson mohawke – dance forever
2. beyonce – break my soul
3. donna savage – crush
4. romare – priestess
5. paula jets – jazzfest
6. marcel dettmann – suffice to predict
7. keke – thick8. kungs & boys noize – fashion
9. asther the producer & el completo rd – blim blim blam blam
10. nickodemus & qvln – werere (congafist percussao mix)
BEST ALBUMS
1. viagra boys – cave world
2. fontaines d.c. – skinty fia
3. meat wave – malgin hex
4. kamp & fid mella - 2urück 0hne 2ukunft
5. hudson mohawke – cry sugar
6. kode9 – escapology
7. hieroglyphic being – there is no acid in this house
8. cypress hill – back in black
9. preoccupations – arrangements
10. beach house - Once Twice Melody
11. suff daddy – basically sober
12. b.visible – pleasant clutter
13. leon vynehall - fabric presents Leon Vynehall
14. tsha – fabric presents tsha (dj mix)
15. theo parrish – dj-kicks (detroit forward)
16. romare – fantasy
17. loop – sonancy
18. danger mouse & black thought – cheat codes
19. beyoncé – renaissance
20. guerilla toss – famously alive
21. dälek – precipice
22. dead cross – dead cross II
22. santigold – spirituals
23. !!! – let it be blue
24. moderat - more d4ta
25. napalm death – resentment is always seismic - a final throw of throes [EP]
26. rosalia – motomami
27. ebow – canê
28. black midi – hellfire
29. die sterne – hallo euphoria
30. tv priest – my other people
BEST SONGS (INDIE, POP & RADIO)
(zufällige reihenfolge)
dead cross – love without love
die sterne – gleich hinter krefeld
m.i.a. – popular
diana ross & tame impala – turn up the sunshine
meat wave – complaint
viagra boys – ain't no thief
fontaines d.c. – i love you
cari cari – zdarlight 1992
rosalia – chicken teriyaki
cypress hill – the ride
AND ALSO …
DJ/ELECTRONIC SET –
CONCERT – protomatyr, rote fabrik, zürich
FESTIVAL – keines, to be honest
CLUB – gasthaus dopler
TV – star trek lower decks, dope sick, we own this city
RADIO – fm4 unlimited
MOVIE – night mare alley
MUSIC-VIDEO –
MAGAZINE – trasher
MUSIC-MAGAZINE – ox
BOOK – wu-tang ist forever
NOT BAD – sich ein jahr auf eine sache konzentrieren
NOT GOOD – war
2022 – weniger arbeiten, mehr blog einträge
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